Franz

Franz: Oh, let me stay yet a little while—here, where I live. Without is death!

Franz:

Adelheid: Already you hesitate? Then give me back the phial. You played the hero, but you are only a boy; A man who wooes a noble woman stakes his life, honour, virtue, happiness! Boy, leave me!

Adelheid:

Franz: No, you are mine. And if I get your freedom I get my own. With a firm hand I shall pour the poison into my master's cup. Farewell.

Franz:

[He embraces her and hurries away.

CONTENTS

Scene IV.—Rustic garden. Marie sleeping in an arbour. Lerse.

Scene IV.

Marie

Lerse

Lerse: Gracious lady, awake! We must away. Goetz captured as a rebel and thrown into a dungeon! His age! His wounds!

Lerse:

Marie: We must hurry to Weislingen. Only dire necessity can drive me to this step. Saving my brother's life I go to death. I shall kneel to him, weep before him.

Marie:

[Exit.

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